
Archive : Belgian set-back
Leyland closure British Leyland’s small assembly plant employing 200 at Malines, in Belgium, is to close in December. a company spokesman said yesterday in London. The main Belgian assembly plant […]
Leyland closure British Leyland’s small assembly plant employing 200 at Malines, in Belgium, is to close in December. a company spokesman said yesterday in London. The main Belgian assembly plant […]
Nearly 9,000 shop floor workers at the five British Leyland bus and truck factories in Chorley and Leyland, Lancashire, voted to strike immediately after a mass meeting at lunchtime yesterday. […]
British Leyland Britain’s biggest employer is to cut its labour force. The news was given to union men in London yesterday by top Leyland officials. They gave warning that there […]
THE GUARDIAN TRIUMPH NEWS At the Triumph car plant in Coventry—-part of the British Leyland Group—a one day strike by 1,200 clerical workers stopped production and made 5,500 other workers […]
Clifford Webb writes British Leyland’s unofficial combined shop stewards committee yesterday called for immediate action to put threshold pay claims into official procedure at all the group’s 59 United Kingdom […]
THE GUARDIAN STANDARD TRIUMPH NEWS Production was halted yesterday in Coventry at the Triumph car factory and 9,000 workers laid off because of a strike by clerical staff. The strikers, […]
Harry Webster, 57-year-old technical director of Austin Morris, has resigned and is leaving British Leyland at the end of the month. Webster, an engineer of immense standing in the motor […]
British Leyland have obtained an industrial development certificate to build a £10m foundry on land adjoining their existing foundry complex at Wellingborough, Northants. Confirming this last night, a company spokesman […]
By Raymond Perman Labour Staff Workers at British Leyland’s Austin-Morris car assembly plant at Cowley, voting in a secret ballot for the first time, have rejected Mr Alan Thornett, a […]
By Clifford Webb British Leyland has submitted an application to the Department of Industry for permission to build a new car plant at Moon’s Moat, a 100 acre site at […]
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